The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-11-24
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Item" OF Intorest Gathered from, Various
Quarters.

tations near Shriever, La.
The city of Limerick has been pro.
claimed under the Crimes Act.
The land commission has reduced rents
In County Limerick, Ireland, 40 per cent
The President has accepted the resgna.
ton of Land Commissioner Sparks.
A. special conference on the inspiration
OF the Bible is in session at Philadelphia
r. r. Wilson, prominent LAWYER Of
Petcrshurg, Va, has become Methodist
preacher.
Visitors to Tullamoro Jail declare that
MIR. OBrien has greatly changed, and that
he refuses to take nourishing food
The one hundred and fifth session Of the
Virginia Methodist Conference is in session
ut DanVillc, Bishop Key presiding.
The President has accepted the rcsigna.
tl0n OF Land Commissioner Sparks, to take
elect at once.
at Hancock, Mich, yesterday, the pack
lnghouse OF the Hancock Chemical Works
was blown up, and six men killed
The reported marriage of Clara Louise
Kellogg to Carl Strakosh is confirmed, the
lady herself admitting the fact.
-, No new eases Of fever and no deaths in
Tampa yesterday. A case is reported two
miles from that place.
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, has voted
10 extend call to the Rev. Charles Berry,
OF Wolverhampton, England.
A.cotton compress aud 900 bales of cot
ton were burned at Grccnvillc, Texas, yes
terday. Total loss $3.50, 900 Partly in
surcd
The Car has refused 10 comply with the
energetic requests Of the Panslavist party
to assist Abyssinia against Italy and Eng
land
The assignee Of n. S. Hatch & Co.. of
New York, says he thinks the liabilities OF
the firm will not reach $500, 900, and that
the assets will about cover them.
1t is said that mine has been discovered
near prescott, Arizona, which will yield
ore worth 81 900 a ton--thc richest in The
world.
The steamer Wah, Ycung has been dc.
stroycd by fire on the Canton river. About
aOu passengers arc supposed to hayc been
lost.
AT the annual Conference OF the English
Liberal League il was announced that tie
League had $50 bIanch lodges andn8, 600
members.
The London GI0do unoilicially says that
Tic Government will swear in &c, Coz snc
cial constablcs, in order to check further
riots in London.
The 2lst annual session of the National
Grange began at L"n>iur. Mich, ycstcr-
day. Nearly every &tu'c Ill TIC Union was
represented.
It is said that the Re, DR.. Francis L.
iattcn, professor of g sy mt Princeton
College, will succeed in IlCu>h as prcsi-
dent OF that institutions
The Grecnvillc Democratic county con
Ncnilon has ordered primary, tD choose a
fCr Di,,1, l,,.i II
held on the 26th inst.
Notices have been posted in County Glare,
Ireland, ordering boycott OF the Shan.
non Steamship Company for conveying
prisoners to Limerick Jail.
Charles Favor, a butcher Of st. Joseph.
Ia, on Monday, shot merchant named
Blum, in Il personal allrrcation and thcr
cut his own throat. He will die
In the United States Circuit Court yes.
tcrdny Judgments were entered against the
clty OF Houston, Tex, NggregaLlng SIT,
,VV' accrued interest on bonds issued during
Reconstruction days.
The Rev. James w. Saul, d. D., vice
president "t the Universal Peace Union.
died at the Episcopal Hos,i,ai in phlladcy,
phla yesterday, aged 50 years
The grand jury Of Edgcncld criticise the
Circuit Judges and the Solicitors for not
prosecuting MIR. Tompllins, the defaulting
Master tor that county.
At Peru, Ind, on Sunday, the station
agent of the Chicago and Atlantic II ill
road discovered a dynamite bomb in a
freight car.
1t is expected that the United Labor
party in Charleston will put out a ticket in
opposition to the Democratic, and that they
Will be supported by the Radicals
The Ncwbcrry jury charged with the
tIlal OF Col. George Johnstonc, for the
murder of Benson Jones, found a verdict
of mot guilty" after four minutes dclibcr.
alton.
Governor Fitzhugh Lee says he will not
be Il candidate for United States Senator in
Mahonc's place. He says he has no ambi.
ton to run for Vice President, bnt expects
to serve out his term as Governor.
a Dublin dispatch says that the Court Of
Queens Bench has quaShed the verdict of
the coroncr's jury, at Nlitchelstown, in the
case OF the victims Of the police shooting
on the 9th Of September.
The unvciling of the monument to John
{. breckenridge took place yesterday at
Lexington, Ky Representatives of both |
Federal and Confederate armies took mart |
IN the demonstrations.
DIR. Drummond, the famous scientist of |
as the choice of an influential portion of |
the Princeton alumni to succeed Dr. Ne. |
Gosh as President Of Princeton University. |
The argument before the Supreme Court |
OF the United States, in the case of the Vir |
ginia officials imprisoned by Judge Bond |
has been finished, anu n decision is expected |
in about two weeks
The Florida Railroad Commission hos
hnally hXed passenger rates Of three cents
per mile on all the main lines in the State,
ana on short lines at four to five cents pcr
mile
The Inter State Railroad Commission is
engaged in hearing The complaints Of bust
ness men Of Danvillc, Va against the
Richmond and Danyillc Railroad Com
pany.
Land Commissioners Spark has personally
delivered to the President Il long letter, de.
Tending his course in II. Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis and Omaha N'iiway land case
and formally rcsignins Nice.
The information in til ,,~c Of Sherburnc
Hopkins, the young m'n ~ uo sent a bogus
internal machine through tnc mails to Chiel